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© Thomson Reuters 2025.Iran strikes Israeli hospital; Trump to decide on U.S. role in conflict within 'two weeks'
By Alexander Cornwell, Parisa Hafezi, Ahmed Elimam and Tala Ramadan TEL AVIV/DUBAI/WASHINGTON©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Mr Kipling
The hospital was damaged but the strike hit the building NEXT to the hospital. The Israelis did not disclose what this building was. I wonder why?
TaiwanIsNotChina
Just two more weeks for this presidentin' stuff.
geronimo2006
Farcical. Said same thing to Russia and did zero. Attention-seeking idiot who is undermining US credibility.
divinda
As we have seen in Gaza, it was Israel who created a world where "mistakenly" hitting a hospital has now become a standard act of self defense.
Bob Fosse
‘2 weeks’. I called that yesterday. He always says that when he doesn’t know what he is doing.
Underworld
Trump has no idea = two weeks
NB
Prevent the death of the peoples of the Middle East. Prevent the death of the Arabs, Prevent the death of the Persians, Prevent the death of the Jews.
bass4funk
Seems like that could be a possibility
And then he brilliantly in record time put a team together to create “Washington warp speed” and came up with vaccine to deal with it.
He can especially if he has a strategy or talking to his military officials as to what actions if any to take in this situation.
He should
Yup.
sakurasuki
In case anyone lost count how many hospital being attacked by occupier, so far 36.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/13/timeline-israels-attacks-on-hospitals-throughout-its-war-on-gaza
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Who becoming more and more big fan of the censorship now
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/19/how-does-israel-restrict-its-media-from-reporting-on-the-iran-conflict
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-858194
WoodyLee
Netanyahu government is holding U.S. citizens HOSTAGES in Israel and preventing them and other nationalities from leaving Israel, practically Israel is using these foreign nationals as Human Shields
Bob Fosse
He doesn’t.
“I may do it. I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do”
I’m all for the U.S. dropping a bunker buster on one condition only; that 47 rides it like Slim Pickens in Dr Strangelove.
JboneInTheZone
I don’t understand why people come to this website and just flat out lie when they know that we can easily go look up the facts:
”Tel Aviv, Israel — An Iranian missile slammed into the main hospital in southern Israel early Thursday, leaving dozens of people with minor injuries, causing significant damage”
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https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/israel-iran-war-hospital-iranian-missile-soroka/https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/israel-iran-war-hospital-iranian-missile-soroka/
JboneInTheZone
so it’s okay or do you condemn Iran hitting this hospital?
plasticmonkey
Nah. He’s just dumb.
And he has an alcoholic, incompetent SoD.
GuruMick
More Israeli and Yankee lies.
Remember Sadam....he was 40 minutes from building a WMD.
Nobody believes you.
Bomb away and dont have a blubber fit when Iran bombs back.
plasticmonkey
I’d be embarrassed to admit that.
wow
JboneInTheZone
There are literally pictures of the bombed hospital online lmao
plasticmonkey
Brazenly lying while wearing a cross above her bosom.
Ricky Kaminski13
O.K I shouldn’t even bother but now Israel are apparently using human shields.
Now the hospital was not bombed, just waiting for the next obvious mind slip where Israel LET the bomb hit the hospital, in order to justify its evil Zionist plan and bloodlust.
The fact that the leftist are lining up like ducklings in support of the Iranian regime, one that shoots women for daring to take off their hijabs brutally suppresses their own people, sponsors terrorism and overtly stated that their ultimate plan was to wipe Israel off the face of the earth shows the skewed and deprived depths of misjudgment this particular mindset births.
God speed Israel, they are not starting a war they are finishing one and god speed to the Iranian people who now have the chance to be free of this murderous backward regime.
Now handing you back to the ‘evil Zionist’ mob.
JboneInTheZone
You already have GuruMick in here saying it didn’t even happen lol
Peter14
Given the number of Israeli strikes on Palestinian hospitals, I guess the Israelis now have a deeper understanding of the outrage they have caused in Gaza. But I doubt many care about Gaza or those who live there.
GuruMick
There are lies all over the article...LMAO....you focus on the pic of hospital, I focus on the rapidity alleged that Iran can build a nuke.....then theres the issues of sending it by plane or rocket.
Wait....2 minutes away from Iran building a nuke capable rocket.
Desert Tortoise is a good source for debunking military myths.
As for Israels hospital....well they do insist in building command and control centres under these hospitals dont they ?
Sarcasm alert.
ThePunisher
Spineless Trump can't make a decision.
GuruMick
Ricky...God speed to all the people who think change must occur through warfare.
Didnt Iran have a deal Obama brokered ?
Oh, God speed, this has been forgotten
JboneInTheZone
Why did the IAEA report that Iran had enriched uranium to 60% if they weren’t going to use it for a nuclear weapon when nuclear powered civilian infrastructure only requires an enrichment level of 5%?
You won’t answer
Wait.. are you seriously saying you think Iran doesn’t have a rocket that can reach Israel in an article about how Iran hit Israel with a rocket? Lmao you can’t be serious
Where is there any claim from Iran or anyone that there was a command center under this hospital?
You won’t answer
Desert Tortoise
Gee, it is not as if the IDF hasn't destroyed a few hospitals in Gaza ......................
Blacklabel
Because its stupid and juvenile.
JboneInTheZone
So striking this hospital is okay then? I’m confused
TokyoLiving
Trump opened his eyes and realized that Israel is a very BAD BUSINESS...
LOOOOOOOOOOOL !!!!..
deanzaZZR
@JboneInTheZone Why did the IAEA suspiciously release its statement a day before Israel attacked Iran? Why did 11 countries abstain and 3 countries voted against the resolution so the vote was 19-14 with the US and its allies making up the 19 pro votes?
Peter14
Gee, it is not as if the IDF hasn't destroyed a few hospitals in Gaza ......................
It is a matter of great hypocrisy that Israel who has destroyed all Gaza hospitals, now shows outrage when one of its hospitals is slightly damaged by Iran retaliating for Israel attacking it. How can you not see that? Blind much.
Tokyo Guy
The famous "two weeks".
I mean that could have been one of those "blank out the newspaper headline and guess the missing words" games.
"Trump says he will do X in...."
(All together now)
"Two weeks!"
okinawarides
Al Jazeera reported the target was a Israel military building right next to the hospital, not the hospital itself.
For context Israel flattened 36 hospitals in Gaza.
"****Iran said Thursday the main target of a missile attack in which a hospital in southern Israel was hit was an Israeli military and intelligence base, not the health facility.
" The main target of the attack was the Israeli Army Command and Intelligence Base (IDF C4I) and the Army Intelligence Camp in Gav-Yam Technology Park, located in the vicinity of the Soroka Hospital,” Iran state news agency IRNA said.
JJE
The Israeli authorities are doing a very aggressive job at censorship relating to targets and maintaining a 'refined' information management narrative.
The adjacent Communications, Control and Intelligence Headquarters (IDF C4I HQ) was the primary target, as was IDF Central Intelligence and Operations Building in the Gav-Yam Technology Park, both right across the road, with said hospital taking shock wave damage only (easily visible from the actual interior damage).
Tehran striking back at strategic military targets with accuracy should be the focus here, but that's not what is wanted of course.
DudeDeuce
Any way he decides to go people here will whine about it. Then they will downvote this comment without replying because it is all about who wins the popularity contest of the biggest whiner.
JboneInTheZone
Israel attacked partially BECAUSE of the IAEA report. When a report comes out stating that a regional adversary who has declared their intention to destroy your country is closing ground on uranium enrichment past any probable civilian use you’re going to try to prevent it
This has nothing to do with the report they released. The report is independent of the vote you’re talking about which is in reference to whether or both Iran is complying with obligations. Their enrichment of uranium to 60% is something they vote on
JboneInTheZone
I asked a very simple question that you refused to answer so I’ll ask again: do you condemn this hospital attack?
JboneInTheZone
So if they’re attempting to hit military targets it’s fine then? So if Israel is attempting to hit military targets in a hospital it’s fine then? I’m confised
Blacklabel
Yet in Ukraine it’s NEVER accepted that the target was the military troops actually in the (school/hospital/old people home/mall).
or that the target was actually in the building next door.
or that the missile was “shot down” causing it to go off target.
So why is this propaganda accepted here this time?
Aly Rustom
That is just rich! Look who's talking! OMG!
Jimizo
Anyone here old enough to remember the exact thing being said about Iraq by Bush and Blair?
I’m not sure this poster is.
Change that ‘I’m not sure’. He clearly isn’t.
JboneInTheZone
Regardless of whether or not you agree with the Iraq war it’s undeniable that Saddam’s regime was murderous
buchailldana
The audacity of Mr .Katz complaining about bombing a hospital ( which is reprehensible)
while his Israeli troops have been obliterating both Gaza's hospitals and even schools is stomach turning.
Just evil
Jimizo
Yep.
What did you think of the results of that bloodbath?
Afghanistan another roaring success?
JboneInTheZone
No, I think they were bad. I wasn’t challenging you on whether or not those wars were bad though only on the fact that Saddam was in fact murderous
Jimizo
Of course he was. Who’s saying he wasn’t?
Talk about PhDs in the bloody obvious.
My point was to a poster talking like Bush and Blair 20-odd years ago.
JboneInTheZone
You? Your response inferred that you had contentions with Bush and Blair’s claims that Saddam was murderous. Maybe you’re an ESL that doesn’t know how your posts come off?
They are correct in that regard though. He literally was murderous.
elephant200
America will be dragged into another long term exhausting war of attrition. Netanyahu's war against Iran is far reached and for very long term and very uncompromising. Donald Trump is willing to commit his war and he will sending the last Americans to fight for Israel !
lincolnman
The Israel-Iran war escalates and the Demented Dimwit in the WH plays his fiddle...
How did we ever elect such a weak, impotent leader - one who is disrespected, rejected, and laughed at - by not only his enemies, but his friends too...
He had boasted about his supposed "deal" with the Iranians that he'd been working on for months - and what did Bibi do? Spit in his face...
The world is a much more dangerous place when the dictators and tyrants no longer fear the US...
Wasabi
as trump is powerless, sadly everything could happen...
Jimizo
?
Try reading this again:
The yep agreed with your statement that Saddam was murderous.
GuruMick
AND, as usual , none of the Israel boosters and warfare lovers stating anything about the leader of Israel being an INDICTED WAR CRIMINAL.
But oooh....those Iranians....bad people.....
wallace
Israel bombing Gaza hospitals and other civilian sites is acceptable to them, but the Iranian bombing of a hospital is a war crime.
JboneInTheZone
So was the leader of Hamas. Do you condemn him as well?
GuruMick
"Iran has all it needs to produce a nuclear weapon "
Thats the lie I referred to....not the bombing of a hospital in Israel.
But in the hypervigilant rush to be right, when actually wrong, some posters are committing the "lie of omission"
BTW....I hope Israel hospitals get bombed and I hope tens of thousands of Israeli non combatants die or are horribly mangled BECAUSE thats what the IDF has been doing for nearly 3 years in Gaza.
Equality of pain and suffering ....seems fair to me.
wallace
Why will it take Trump two weeks to decide whether to attack Iran?
Jimizo
Golf on the calendar?
I’d say medical checks should be in order in that time. He looked really out of it at the G7.
Very concerning.
Alfie Noakes
The veteran journalist Seymour Hersh claims he's lying again and the US will attack this weekend. Hersh has been wrong before and seems past it but still has very good contacts around the world.
Oh, and yeah:
https://legal.un.org/repertory/art51.shtml
lincolnman
I've always wondering what could split the MAGA cult - and cause Trump's loyal supporters to turn on him...and this decision on involving the US in another Middle East war could be it...
MAGA-world, and Trump, made its name by saying "America First" and that the US had involved itself in way too many foreign adventures - and a tenet of his 2016 and 2024 platform was "no new wars"....
Well, if he breaks that promise, just has he has so many others, that could be the straw that breaks the camel's back. You already see it with MAGA heroes Bannon, Carlson, MTG, Kirk, and many others saying any new war would be a betrayal of the MAGA cause.
If Trump decides to join with Israel in attacking Iran, all hell will break loose in MAGA-world and the Repub party - and it's open warfare between Trump and his new NEOCON partners and the America Firsters...
And just like that MAGA-world will self-implode...
WoodyLee
On March 23rd. Israel killed 15 Paramedics and rescue workers while they were on their way to help victims of it's attacks then buried their corpses along with their 2 ambulances underground.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0xp969n69o
JJE
The laughable factor is the party ruthlessly bombing and killing with impunity for 600 days playing the victim.
Even more hilarious is it was their sneak attack during ongoing talks which provoked this reply.
Vanillasludge
That there is no predefined plan for this shows that not only is Israel completely controlling the agenda, but also that they did not even consult with the USA in the run up to the attack.
If he was in the loop on planning Trump wouldn’t look like a guy who can’t find his car keys.
okinawarides
So if they’re attempting to hit military targets it’s fine then? So if Israel is attempting to hit military targets in a hospital it’s fine then?
Well, that has been the standard Israeli operating procedure so far hasn't it, flatten hospitals and claim there were military tunnels and legitimate targets under it. Or is that different?
Harry_Gatto
Really? Man, that's twisted, you should get some help for that.
wallace
A vile comment, and why would you wish that on any people?
okinawarides
If Trump decides to join with Israel in attacking Iran, all hell will break loose in MAGA-world and the Repub party - and it's open warfare between Trump and his new NEOCON partners and the America Firsters..
If he does go in and attacks Iran, indeed that GOP split is likely to happen and deservedly so.
itsonlyrocknroll
President Trump will need to come to a decision within three to four days.
Two carrier strike groups are steaming to the region, a huge force of additional misery support is being managed committed, little time for hesitation.
I have little doubt Israeli prime minister benjamin Netanyahu, is piling on the political pressure.
itsonlyrocknroll
Military, not misery.
I guess misery will be the inevitable outcome for both Israel and Iran civilian populations when this war seriously kicks off.
JboneInTheZone
It’s absolutely wild that my post got deleted but this is allowed to stay. It’s even more wild that this has 9 upvotes
GuruMick
Commentators here routinely spout a "go get ,em " attitude when innocent Arabs are murdered by Zionists.
I am just replaying this from the other side.
And, "the people get killed in war " comments....all OK when applied to Arab kids and women....but not allowed for the other side.?
At least I am not a hypocrite.
Israel has an indicted war criminal as PM.
Doesnt this raise concerns ?
He advocates a Biblical extermination of Gazan people ....women, kids, men....even cattle.
No concerns raised by the boosters.
Moderator
Readers, please control your emotions.
Fountain
bass4funk
”And then he brilliantly in record time put a team together to create “Washington warp speed” and came up with vaccine to deal with it.”
I remember watching a documentary about foreign eye surgeons volunteering in North Korea to help ordinary people with eye problems.
This quote sounds so much like how these North Koreans citizens spoke about Kim Yong-il, as they constantly praised him.
It’s uncanny…..
Ryokai
They should add ITW (In Two Weeks) to Trump’s moniker.
JJE
Iran is like Russia: a historical state with strategic depth able to sustain the war but patient to make gains over time. Able to absorb the jabs and come back stronger.
Israel is like Ukraine: it 100% relies on the US for advantage - ostensibly provocative and escalatory to get the latter to join the war on its behalf because it knows it will ultimately lose without military intervention.
Initially Israel expected Iran to splurge and launch its entire complement of missiles not only to immediately exhaust itself, but also to invite a huge 'tragedy' that can be used to incite US entry into the provoked war (this hospital charade is precisely that). Instead, Iran has chosen a similar strategy to Russia - which is to deliberately slow the conflict down and stretch Israel's (and the US's) finite resources all the while withstanding the pressure.
The name of the game is bleeding them dry slowly with the 'death by a thousand cuts' strategy employed by Russia against the Atlanticist empire in Ukraine. To this end, Iran is now sending small but increasingly more effective volleys of missiles daily to grind down Israel's military and economic resources, while rallying popular domestic support.
Yrral
Israel is at the mercy of Iran rocket, Israel is trying to restock , Iran has introduced clusters bomb in the theatre of war
GuruMick
Jaybone....you never ONCE showed compassion for non combatant Gazan people being slaughtered, even when seeking food aid. The woman who lost 9 out of 10 kids, plus a husband, when IDF bombed her house.
She and husband were Doctors.....Jay....did you condemn this ?
Yeah...maybe thats why you get downvotes.
OK....now we see a real war with a nation , Iran, able to fight back,
No tears for Israeli deaths from me.
All this starts with Netanyahu and loopy crazed US Military neo cons.
Attilathehungry
Godspeed to the IAF and their righteous mission to rid the world of the number one terror sponsor on the planet. And hopefully it can be done with minimal civilian casualties, as is usual with the IDF in general. Iran, in turn, lacks the tech or the will to differentiate between civilian and military targets.
Hopefully this will be over soon and the Iranian people can free themselves from the shackles that keep them down.
ian
What is sure now is that Iran will build that nuclear weapon
Yrral
Israelis are having to walk out of Israel into Egypt to leave Israel
JboneInTheZone
I think it’s horrible that non-combatants are killed in Gaza so I don’t know what you’re talking about. Innocent people being killed anywhere is absolutely horrendous
Even the innocent children?
JJE
What is also lost is Iran, as a decent sovereign nation and observed UN member in good standing and signatory to the NPT, has each and every right to maintain a domestic enrichment capacity AND to produce HEU.
Also important to observe the US unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA, voiding the entire agreement, so invoking that is a spurious strawman argument.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Say what you will about Sleepy Joe, it never took him two weeks to make a yes/no decision.
Yrral
They have probably removed the enrich Uranium, American and Israel official look like fools
kohakuebisu
Lots of folks now expecting a false flag attack on the US to convince the plebs.
In the 1960s, the Israelis sank a US warship, ironically named the USS Liberty, and tried to blame it on Egypt to justify US entering the Israel-Egypt conflict on the side of Israel. The bereaved families did not get justice.
They have done it before. These people are currently starving two million people. A few dead Americans will mean nothing to them if it gives the US media an excuse to beat the war drums and dupe the public into supporting US involvement.
TaiwanIsNotChina
I think what is becoming clear is that the dithering is a result of a fear to anger best buddy Pootie Poot.
TokyoLiving
How many hospitals were destroyed by the zionist regime in Gaza??..
27
Fight Persians, do justice for Palestine !!!..
wallace
Putin warned Trump not to attack Iran, and he is heeding that.
NB
Iran bombed Soroka hospital, the main hospital in the south of Israel. It is a civilian hospital, which of course does not contain any military base. The hospital serves Jweish and Arabic patients. Had you strolled in the hospital's campus before it was hit, you would have seen a mixture of Jewish and Arabic patients, as well as a mixture of Jewish and Arabic doctors, nurses and workers.
Three of the Arabic doctors I know personally are the wonderful Dr. Abed, a senior surgeon, the excellent Dr. Ibrahim, a surgeon, and the kind and professional Dr. Isma'il, a nephrologist. One Arabic nurses I know personally is the charming, modest and kind, Hijab-wearing, Nurse Iman, a nephrological nurse.
The mad arch-criminal Iranian Ayatollah has just tried to murder Dr. Abed, Dr. Ibrahin, Dr. Isma'il, Nurse Iman, their Jewish colleagues and their Jewish and Arabic patients.
itsonlyrocknroll
It is quite right for President Trump to take a deep breath, only fools rush in.
I suspect sadly both Iran/Israel will force his hand soon. If both haven't already
JJE
Precisely. Long before this started Tehran has been preparing and no doubt has been decentralizing and dispersing critical assets, equipment and creating redundancy in personnel and capabilities that can be preserved and reconstituted at a later date.
There are also increasing doubts about the overall effectiveness of the initial IDF air campaign, despite the back slapping. To remove an entire nuclear program or cause regime change simply with a sneak air campaign is very questionable indeed.
GuruMick
Ricky....Iran does not shoot women who take of the headscarf.
I have referenced western you tube tourists travelling in main Iran cities, on trains, metros, shopping malls, coffee shops. The pics I sa were some women wearing headscarfs, some not at all and some women covering completely. Google "Iran travel videos "
Even saw some young women riding skateboards and wearing track suits.
Secondly, there is no official Govt. plan to wipe Israel off the map.
A few days ago, a Farsi speaker on this forum explained how a deliberate mistranslation between what one offficial said and what was translated.
The war is against Zionism, a vicious POLITICAL offshoot of Judaism with no religious roots at all. Jews from all over the world have rejected Zionism as secular and not religious based or related to Judaism.
Why do I, a secular person and non Jew know more about these things.
Is it called an open mind ?
GuruMick
Jaybone....I asked for examples on this forum where you condemned the death of innocent Gazans.
I didnt ask what "you think "....I asked for evidence of your state of mind.
Simple question....is a Gazan child the same worth as an Israeli child ?
GuruMick
Attila....give us a couple of examples where "regime change " in the ME went well.
NB
Israel has been eager for peace ever since its inception. The tiny country is a home for Jews and for Arabs. This tiny country could have been integrated within its environment, and contributed to the progress and prosperity of this environment.
itsonlyrocknroll
“Regime change” in Iran will only stem from 'revolution' not from outside military intervention
lincolnman
Nothing screams "hypocrisy" more than our MAGA-fans here cheering for Trump to go to war with Iran, when for the past eight years all they have done is ridiculed and insulted the NEOCON portion of their own party for invading Iraq and Afghanistan - and getting the US involved in "endless" Middle East wars...
"No New Wars" they shouted during all of 2024...
Now? They're all for endless wars...
John Bolton NEOCON warmonger yesterday, MAGA hero today...makes one think Trump is getting his advice from Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld...
MAGA-world stands for nothing - except playing its supporters for fools...
And a lot of them are now realizing it...
Yrral
Only thing Trump is running is big mouth,legal cases piling up ,protest,you know he has not said anything about immigration,it gets to him, maybe he gonna go to a Mexican restaurant an order a corn based shell dinner
wallace
Netanyahu and Trump want an Iranian regime change.
Yrral
People do not care if Israel exists,they about done with the mess ,they created
bass4funk
But not by us, if the Israelis want to do it, go for it
NB
Iranian Ballistic missiles are now on the way to murder innocemt civilians in Israel.
GuruMick
Midday today...just watched a Youtuber video on travels in Iran...he was American , video less than 6 months old.
Well, lots of people, all friendly but to the point, lots of women, talking freely to this single man and guess what ?
Some women in scarves, some not, some with complete hair cover, some hair flowing freely.
NO WOMEN GETTING MURDERED FOR SHOWING HAIR .
I cant believe a rational person on this forum made this allegation.
Secondly, I dont think the US wants a war with Iran, even the MAGA crowd loosing interest.
Looks like another fizzer folks.
GuruMick
NB....I am reminded of your comment of about 1 month ago....you claimed "Hamas had control over the Israeli judicial system "
Yep.....thats what you wrote.
Hard to come back from THAT and now want to be taken seriously
Raw Beer
Two weeks? Probably because israel only has about 2 weeks worth of missiles for its Iron Dome (Iron Sieve) system, at current rates...
HopeSpringsEternal
Terrible things happen with military operations, lots of 'collateral' damage. Israel is taking on the single biggest threat to humanity and civilization; the nuclear weapons program being pursued by the madmen in Iran.
It has to go, hopefully via diplomacy, but Trump's FULLY committed to removing this existential threat.